Weight Loss News May 16th, 2008
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COLIN FARRELL – FARRELL: ‘WEIGHT LOSS IS HEALTHY
Actor COLIN FARRELL has sparked fears for his health after he appeared at a press conference looking alarmingly gaunt – but he insists he’s merely shedding weight for a film role.
Farrell, 31, shocked reporters when he showed up to promote his upcoming movie Triage – in which he plays a war reporter in 1990s Bosnia – during a trip to Spain.
Obesity and global warming, Atkins and weight loss, the gecko and the egg
Heavy people strain the environment
Obesity is a global responsibility that is contributing to global warming, according to Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Writing in the medical journal the Lancet, they said heavy people use more fuel and food, contribute to rising prices and will speed warming. They estimate that an obese person needs 18 percent more calories than a person of normal weight to maintain their weight and perform daily activities, and they use more fuel since thin people are more likely to walk. But some say the idea that obese people contribute to global warming isn’t sound because a lot of food overproduction is related to waste…
Baptist Hospital East offering weight-loss surgery
Baptist Hospital East has now added gastric banding surgery to its list of services.
The surgery is performed by making a series of small incisions in the abdomen, which allows the gastric banding system to be placed around the top of the stomach. This creates a smaller stomach pouch, resulting in the ability to control hunger and “achieve a feeling of fullness,” according to a news release.
Mom Develops Online Weight-Loss Plan
DENVER — If you’re a mother, you know what it’s like to put everyone else before you. Your kids, your husband, maybe even your pets, then you. For Christina Schneider, loving her kids was easy, but finding time to love herself was the challenge.
“I just had two kids. It was time to try to get somewhat back into shape,” said Schneider.
Schneider decided to try an online program, designed just for her. IncentaHealth came up with the idea to help companies trying to shape up their working staff. Working with Physicians’ Fitness Coach and New West Physicians, IncentaHealth wanted to provide the tools for participants to lose weight and keep it off.
Weight Loss News May 14th, 2008
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Dairy Still Doesn’t Help with Weight Loss
Not a magazine goes by it seems without a dairy ad extolling milk’s (or another dairy product’s) role in weight loss – this of course despite the fact that Big Milk in the U.S. admitted that there was insufficient evidence to suggest or refute that milk has any weight-related benefits after being confronted by the FTC.
Well guess what? A new meta-analysis came to a different conclusion – it came to the conclusion that dairy products do not help with weight.
“Of 49 randomized trials assessing the effect of dairy products or calcium supplementation on body weight, 41 showed no effect, two demonstrated weight gain, one showed a lower rate of gain, and five showed weight loss. Four of 24 trials report differential fat loss. Consequently, the majority of the current evidence from clinical trials does not support the hypothesis that calcium or dairy consumption aids in weight or fat loss.”
Innovative Swiss Programme Offers New Hope For Long Term Weight-loss
Successful long-term weight loss for obese patients can be achieved without drugs using a low-cost approach that involves innovative intensive therapy followed by long term support, new research shows.
Swiss researchers found that more than half a group of morbidly obese patients maintained a 10 kg weight reduction and overall 70% of their patients succeeded in avoiding further weight gain after five years.
“This is a phenomenal success rate. Finding a way to help patients maintain their weight loss over a long period of time is difficult and these findings show that it is indeed possible for many people,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Séverine Buclin of the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
More than 500,000 people have lost weight eating cookies.
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Q&A with Dr Thomas Stuttaford on tackling weight loss
Dr Thomas Stuttaford is away next week. His next online forum will be live after 1pm on May 28. The topic is: how to treat hay fever and summer colds? To ask the doctor your question on this topic and to read other recent topics he has answered click here
Q1: I am 59, live in France and have a sedentary occupation, pretty much desk-bound in my home office, have an underactive thyroid for which I am taking Levothyrox at 50mg per day. I have had a weight problem since the age of ten and so I grew up being very aware of the right things to eat and I am very strict with myself. I actually don’t like sweet foods and I stick to a healthy, balanced diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables, low-fat meats and slow-burning carbohydrates, usually totalling an average of 1200 to 1500 calories per day.
Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
More than 500,000 people have lost weight eating cookies.
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Weight Loss for All the World to See
A growing number of successful losers keep accountable by blogging about their weight loss efforts. In today’s Lean Plate Club column, meet Shauna Reid–also known as Dietgirl. (I was delighted to learn that the Lean Plate Club is one of the things that helped inspire Shauna’s efforts.) By the way, Shauna has lost half her body weight. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, a book detailing her odyssey, will soon be published in the U.S.
Also meet Gerry Pugliese. He writes the DiseaseProof blog for Dr. Joel Fuhrman. Gerry was lean until after college, when a difficult job interfered with his workouts and he turned to food to soothe his stress. Sound familiar? Gerry has lost about 60 pounds by eating smart with a diet that is mostly vegetable based and moving more, including discovering yoga.
GSK petition claims weight loss supplements have no science
A petition by drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) requesting that weight loss claims be treated as disease claims maintains that there is no credible science to back up weight loss ingredients used in dietary supplements.
GSK filed the petition at the end of last month, together with the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society and Shaping America’s Health, an association for weight management.
It maintains that obesity and overweight are significant risk factors for certain diseases, and so products promoting weight loss should be treated as drugs. However, the petitioners also claim that “there is no credible evidence whatsoever to support any type of qualified health claim for a weight loss supplement”.
Weight Loss News May 13th, 2008
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Drug petition could strip supplements of weight loss claims
A petition filed with the US FDA calling for the agency to treat weight loss claims as disease claims could wipe the weight loss category from the dietary supplement map.
The citizen petition was filed at the end of last month by drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) together with the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society and Shaping America’s Health, an association for weight management.
The petitioners are asking the Food and Drug Association (FDA) to prevent dietary supplement products from claiming they can promote, assist or otherwise help in weight loss. Such claims, they say, should be considered as disease claims.
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The Integrated Approach to Weight Loss
Content provided by Mayo Clinic Health Solutions
(ARA) – Two-thirds of American adults are overweight and one in three are considered to be obese. An integrative approach can be an effective strategy for losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight.
“This is a transitional time in medicine. New therapies and treatments, once called alternative, are emerging to meet the needs of our physical, mental and spiritual health. Good health is more than your physical health because you are more than just a body,” says Dr. Brent Bauer, director of complementary and integrative medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “This blending of the best of conventional and alternative medicine is known as integrative medicine.”
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Top Secret Fat Loss Secret Offers an Alternative to the Usual Diet for Weight Loss
Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is now available at www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com This fat loss program offers people seeking to lose weight and keep it off an alternative to the regular diet and exercise routine. Top Secret Fat Loss Secret targets plaque and parasites in the body that hold onto food in order to live in colons and bowels. Dr. Susanne Gudakunst explains on this website how these parasites come to be and why they are harmful to the body and detrimental to weight loss. This cleansing system rids the body of such plaque and parasites. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is available in two affordable packages; the Pro Version and the Hardcore Elite Version, discounts on those prices are currently available.
Dr. Susanne Gudakunst weight loss system targets unhealthy parasites in the body surviving in the colon and bowels on semi-digested food matter. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret claims to be the secret system that is otherwise left unspoken of by 99% of weight loss experts and other doctors. The reason behind this is other systems work on a cyclical effect at depend on people remaining unhealthy in order to sell these systems, programs, and diets many times to make more money off the consumer. Dr. Susanne boasts a level of compassion for all people and wants them to uncover the truth behind this other approaches to weight loss that are difficult. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret cleanses the body of harmful parasites making it possible for the weight to come off and stay off.
Top Secret Fat Loss Secret aims to be the solution to people in a situation where everything else has failed, not of their own doing but because of the unhealthy choices around them. Even when eating seemingly healthy choices, parasites and plaque form in the colon and bowels holding onto food so it can survive. This food they live on remains in the body staying on as excess, unhealthy weight. If these parasites are not addressed they can mineralize, not unlike a fossil, in the human body and become potentially dangerous. In this situation it may become impossible for nutrients to be absorbed properly by the body. Dr. Susanne boasts the Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is the answer to these dangerous parasites and ultimately the answer to shedding those dangerous extra pounds.
Top Secret Fat Loss Secret, now available at www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com, is the alternative to regular diet and exercise. This system of weight loss cleanses the body of potentially dangerous parasites living in the human body. Dr. Susanne Gudakunst believes it is the secret answer to weight loss in modern day life.
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Dr. Sanford Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
Eat cookies, lose weight!
Beware of Imitators – Buy It Here
Calories count, but what about fat, sugar and carbs?
Kevin Kopjak doesn’t care much about carbs, fat, sodium or high fructose corn syrup.
He generally reads only two things on a nutrition label: the portion size and the calories. He says the strategy has helped him lose and keep off 100 pounds.
“Counting calories seems to work for me,” says Kopjak, 29, of San Francisco, Calif., who initially did Atkins and several other diets before switching to counting calories. “But it’s a lot of discipline. When I first started, I had an Excel log, where I literally wrote everything I ate down.”
Kopjak may be on to something. The past few decades have brought us diets like Atkins, Sugar Busters, The Zone, Slim Fast and Jenny Craig.
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The Costs of Weight on Business
Epidemic or not, the rate of obesity in the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent decades. Those extra pounds can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as they are for a person’s health and waistline.
In the last 30 years, the rate of obesity in the United States has more than doubled. In a 1976-1980 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of obesity among adults aged 20-74 years was 15 percent. In 2003-2004, NHANES found that number had increased to 32.9 percent.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 32 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight and 34 percent are obese, as defined by the World Health Organization. Likewise, a recent Conference Board report entitled Weights and Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity determined that 34 percent of American adults currently fit the definition of “obese.”
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Diet pills in the time of rice shortage
Hi, boys and girls, it’s no longer that cool to talk about dieting and staying thin.
As you may know, we are facing a global food crisis. The threat of a shortage in the supply of rice and some other essential foods seems real enough. The United Nations, among other august international agencies, has warned about “social unrest on an unprecedented scale” if the crisis is allowed to worsen.
So, stop preaching the gospel of dieting. You’re not going to be so callous as to tell your starving neighbor that skipping meals will make him or her look good. Food crisis or not, the obsession with thinness is beginning to be challenged in some trendy circles. It’s about time.
Mariah Carey finds dieting ‘boring’
She has a figure to die-for, but Mariah Carey insists that it’s really tough to maintain her stats, because she finds fatty food fun and dieting “boring”.
The vocal queen owes her fabulous figure to a gruelling workout and a restrictive eating regime, but she reasserts that she craves for something tasty to eat.
“Working out and dieting and eating boring food. I can’t go to the barbeque spot,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.
However, she vouches for the fact that the diet is working, and she feels good when she is fit.
“I need to work out more. But the diet thing is what works best for me. But it’s good for health. It’s good to be healthy, yes? Everybody needs to be how ever they feel best, that’s what I think,” she said.
Binge eating then dieting risky – study
Binge eating then dieting may significantly reduce a person’s lifespan, the results of a new study indicate.
A team of Scottish researchers found that despite having no effect on body size or reproduction rate, animals given a ‘binge then diet’ food regime had a reduced lifespan of up to 25%.
The researchers from the University of Glasgow compared the growth rate, reproduction success and lifespan of stickleback fish who were given a constant amount of food every day, with those given the same overall amount of food but in a more erratic feeding pattern.
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Weight Loss News May12, 2008
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Stages of successful weight loss
I have closely worked with clients who experienced difficulties during and after the weight loss process, and I’ve observed a consistent pattern in their thoughts and actions that could either make or break their efforts.
Dr. Daniel Kirschenbaum explains why a weight controller behaves at different stages of weight control in his book “Weight Loss Through Persistence.” The complete process might last for a year or more, depending on how a person faces each stage.
Stage 1: Honeymoon
You have a noticeably high level of motivation. You can regularly write down your food intake and exercise, and you can lose from .5 to 2 pounds every week.
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UK weight loss supplements ads deemed misleading
A weight management food supplement claiming fat-binding powers has been told to alter its marketing strategy by the UK advertising watchdog.
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which self-regulates the UK advertising industry, upheld seven complaints lodged against supplements manufacturer Goldshield Healthcare Direct over advertising for a product called LIPObind.
The supplement contained French supplier, Bio Serae’s Neopuntia weight loss cactus extract, and had been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK as a medical device.
It also met the requirements of the European Medical Devices Directive.
Breaches
But ASA noted the Directive did not harmonise EU law relating to the advertising of medical devices.
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New weight loss titles
NEW YORK – One plan advises you to follow it three times a week. Another allows no snacks – except on certain days. And a third advocates for eating up to 20 per cent less.
All the philosophies in the latest bunch of diet books promise to help you shed the winter weight.
Here are some of the new titles, their plans and some perspective from Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
The Alternate-Day Diet, Dr. James B. Johnson with Dr. Donald R. Laub Sr. (Putnam Adult)
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Is Cutting The Vagus Nerve The Answer To Weight Loss?
Last year, 200,000 Americans had weight loss surgery and while gastric bypass surgery can significantly reduce weight, the surgery comes with risks.
Now a procedure that was once commonly used to treat ulcers is being tested as a safe alternative to weight loss surgery.
Action News reporter Kimberly Tere has the details.
The vagus nerve controls your feeling of hunger.
Some even say every single thing the vagus nerve does is designed to make you gain weight.
That is why San Francisco Doctor Robert Lustig is testing laparoscopic vagotomy, a surgery in which the vagus nerve is cut.
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Caveman Diet Seen As Helping Heart And Weight Loss
Our ancestors maintained good health and enjoyed longevity as they followed a caveman’s diet that included plenty of berries, nuts, lean meat, fish and vegetables. A new study has suggested that people who want to lose weight and reduce their risk of heart disease must follow the same diet.
This means that modern day dietary necessities like cereals, dairy products and refined sugar must be abandoned. The stone-age-style diet was tested out on 20 healthy volunteers by Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Huddinge led by Dr Per Wandell.
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Magazines offer weight loss tips for moms
Just in time for Mother’s Day, the women’s magazines are full of advice for new moms struggling to lose weight. If you’ve ever wondered how semi-famous people get their bodies back so fast after giving birth, these tips will give you an idea.
More veggies, fish oil for Trista
Trista Sutter first became known to the world as Trista Rehn, the first-even “Bachelorette.” After marrying her man in 2003, she gave birth nine months ago and has since lost 30 pounds.
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HEALTH BRIEFS: Bank on weight loss
Bank on weight loss
Still struggling to shed pounds? Have your spouse offer you a cash prize.
A 3-month study by the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina found that dieters given just $14 per downtick in their body weight percentage lost a pound more each month than those not offered any incentive. They were also more than five times as likely to shed 5 percent of their body weight.
Antioxidants by the bunch
In search of a snack? Grab some grapes. According to a recent study, they may help prevent colon cancer, the third most common type in the United States.